[portisheaddan]

Can you defrag the ps3 ? Just wondered with all these updates.

Im sure my ps3 has slowed down since I got it with the original firmware (2.36 last month).

The xmb has slowed down and I seam to be loosing disc space on the HDD I only have a couple of games on there.


Anyone?

[Br0ken]

No you can't.

[Coffin]

Shame

[Mickus]

Wouldn't a backup / format / restore do the job?

[Br0ken]

A backup/restore would do nothing to improve the harddisk and a reformat results in a loss of data - I don't think you can do a complete system back up.

[Mickus]

A backup will back everything on the disk except for copyright protected material.

Firmware on a 60gb is held in flash, but a 40gb requires reloading after a format via an USB device. User data and system settings are restored as part of the backup. Anyone who has performed a HDD will confirm that no data is lost.

A restore will copy the files back in a contiguous state and therefore, in theory, leave you with a unfragmented disk. (Not that there's anyway of telling unless there is a drastic performance increase).

[Br0ken]

What does user data include? All movies, pics, music etc? Does it include demos?

[Darth_terra]

Originally Posted by Br0ken

What does user data include? All movies, pics, music etc? Does it include demos?

I believe anything downloaded from PSN doesn't get backed up you need to download them again, i could be wrong, i do know for sure you can't with games from PSN.

When I replaced the 60 Gb disk in my PS3 I backed up the complete system (turned out to be 42 Gb of data even though the disk seemed to be nearly full), After formatting the new drive and before a restore, all the account information was there. On restoring, everything else was as it was before the HD swap.

[mistrip]

I thought that linux based systems didn't get fragmented in the same was as windows ones anyway?